Police are looking for an alleged arsonist who set himself ablaze while attempting to burn down a new local business in Kentucky.

A surveillance video released by the Madisonville Police Department shows a woman and then a man with what appears to be a Molotov cocktail emerge from a white van parked outside the building, NBC News reported.

The woman returns to the backseat of the vehicle only moments before flames erupt and consumes her partner’s shorts and shoes. His clothes quickly catch fire and he races off in a panic while trying to put out the flames.

Towards the end of the two-minute clip, the suspect flings himself into the grass and manages to put out the fire, which had quickly been climbing up his body.

An arsonist set himself ablaze while trying to set fire to a building in Madisonville, Ky., cops said.

(Madisonville Police Department)

After successfully taming the flames, he returns to the van and stokes the blaze now growing around the building.

He empties the contents of a water bottle onto the fire and then gets back in the van and drives off.